[sakai2-tcc] Proposal: Switch to Tomcat 7 for Sakai 2.9

[Steve Swinsburg]

p.s. If you want to read about the Tomcat 7 trials last week:
https://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/sakai-runs-in-tomcat-7/

I just updated it then with a comment about the tools that fail and their stacktraces.

cheers,
Steve

On 11/04/2011, at 9:30 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> After some successful trials last week and discussions with other active developers in the Sakai community, I'd like to propose that we starting thinking about switching to Tomcat 7 in time for Sakai 2.9.
> 
> This effectively means we make the switch now so we can iron out any bugs. I have confirmed that some JSF based tools do not startup, and the stacktraces are rather cryptic. Someone that knows something about JSF will need to take a look. Samigo also fails but its stacktrace is more promising which hopefully means it can be resolved. This could be the first to be fixed so we know where the issue is with the others, perhaps.
> 
> But with enough time these should be able to be resolved. No other changes should be necessary so we could back this change out at some predetermined date in the future if these issues cannot be resolved in time.
> 
> What are your thoughts? 
> 
> By the way, the same configuration changes and issues are in Tomcat 6 as well so we might as well skip that version and focus our efforts where the Tomcat developers have their efforts focused as well, ie TC7.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
>